Russisches Liebespaar

Barlach, Ernst (1870-1938)


Item type:
sculpture
Date of creation:
1908
Height:
33.5 cm  (13 3/16 in.)
Width:
54.1 cm  (21 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
bronze

    Item location

  • Ernst Barlach GmbH & Co. KG
    Werkverzeichnis Laur II, p. 111, cat. 134

Description

Male seated, playing balalaika, and female sitting.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Balalaika [3318]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Beloubek-Hammer, Anita. Ernst Barlach: Plastische meister-werke (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1996) 30-31.

Laur, Elisabeth. Ernst Barlach: Das plastische Werk. Sämtliche Werke, kritische Ausgabe, Bd. 11 (Güstrow: Ernst-Barlach-Stiftung, 2006), II, 134.

Notes

Barlach also created this sculpture in two other materials: gypsum (see Laur, pp. 110-111, cat. 133) and porcelain (Laur, pp. 111-112, cat. 135).

RIdIM record id

255